衅
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quarrel; dispute; a blood sacrifice (arch.)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 血 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 衅
- Common rank
- #3,602
- Unicode
- U+8845
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 衅
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寻衅滋事罪 | disorderly behavior (PRC law) | |
| 边衅 | clash on the frontier; border conflict | |
| 衅端 | pretext for a dispute | |
| 寻衅 | to pick a quarrel; to start a fight | |
| 挑衅 | to provoke; provocation | |
| 观衅伺隙 | lit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom); fig. to search out one's opponent's weak… | |
| 衅隙 | enmity |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 半 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 半 sound part | half; semi-, incomplete | |
| 判 | to judge; to discriminate; to conclude | |
| 伴 | companion, comrade, partner; to accompany | |
| 胖 | fat, plump, obese; a fat person | |
| 叛 | rebel; rebellion; rebellious | |
| 拌 | to mix | |
| 绊 | a loop of thread; shackles, fetters; to stumble, to trip | |
| 泮 | Zhou dynasty school; to disperse, to fall apart | |
| 袢 | robe |